I'm more reserved than my mother and am not a total people person. I tend to remain quiet unless I have something important to say and don't make a bunch of small talk. I'm also more even tempered like my dad, though I have a ton of patience which is unlike both my parents. Mom and Dad have short fuses and curse a lot.

Honestly, I don't know. I wish I had known my parents earlier in their lives. I knew them as parents. My Dad was a good man, a good provider and he was always there for us whenever we needed him. My Mom was beautiful. When I see pictures of her before she was married, she was always dressed in the latest fashion, she was slender, had long brown hair with just a little curl to it. Beautiful blue eyes, full lips, she really was pretty. I was lucky to look a lot like her. She loved to be on stage either acting or singing and she was also good in acrobatics. All that ended when she married. She was a good mother but I never thought she was happy. She loved Dad and was happy with him but his mother moved in with them not long after they were married. I think that was really tough on my mother. She never really felt that she was in charge of her own home and that is a big deal for a young wife and mother. I think that if she had her life to do over, she would do things a lot differently. Sometimes I think I'm going down the same road.

I do that too Dude. I write my column for the Ballymoney and Moyle Times using IncrediMail and I have often clicked send when I meant to click save. I drive myself nuts ... also my editor Lyle. I think he is in therapy thanks to me ... poor darling

Honestly, I'm a little bit of both. My had a Doctoral in Physics and my Mom had a Masters in Psychology (not Psychiatry). I went through a phase in cryprography and found a book on my bookshelf on abstract algebra. Turned out it was my Mom's and she could explain it to me Child of nerds (found this out from my parent's cousins) = nerd. I guess I have a little of both and I respect both because they were good people and reallly intelligent. i only hope I can give back what they did. Correction: do (Mom is stil alive and giving back). Lession to women who think stay-at-home-moms are unintelligent and don't do anything useful.

My Mother says I have my Father's patient smile and methodical manor.I often wonder what he though about her fiery temper!But they divorced,guess that spoke volumes! I am my own person,and my Husband thinks,"they broke the mold!" LOL